Kind of a weird day. Started out at the inlaws in Camden, where I turned off my cellphone alarm set at 7 for an early run and stayed in bed for another 2.5 hours. Yes, I needed the extra sleep, but as usually happens when I stay in bed too long, my back was really, really stiff all morning. And much of the afternoon. Finally got it loosened with a prolonged stretching session, and I was fortunate that it didn't lock up again on the drive home. Then I took a nap when I got home before going out for a recovery run.
As usual, the RR was on the river trail, which I'm using a lot because I think it's the closest thing around here to the course at Newport. I started really slowly until my legs warmed up, settled in at a modest recovery run pace of 9:30 or so, but the last two miles the legs felt really good and I decided to put the hammer down after I entered Alligator Alley. The last 1.25 were not only faster, they were sub-GMP. So much for a recovery run, but the legs still feel good.
Trying to decide how to juggle the training schedule around Hogeye. Do I flip weeks so that the MP run originally set for this Saturday winds up on Hogeye Sunday? Or do I do the MP run this weekend and then a mini-taper for Hogeye? I'll think about it some more.
Good thing I didn't do the early run in Camden this morning, I think. The pine pollen factory is working full blast down there. Just what my asthma doesn't need right now. | 